Non-Fiction

Dealing with mean girls, cliques, and other obstacles on the social scene is one of the minefields of adolescence for girls. This title provides the advice and support girls need for weathering changing friendships, handling feeling like an outsider, and making new and healthy friendships as they grow. A variety of issues, including bullying and cyberbullying, are sympathetically and practically treated. Diary entries, flowchart quizzes, and hip photos will draw in reluctant readers and many others.

What does it feel like to be bullied? If you're being bullied, who can you talk to, and what can you do to make the situation better? Using a relatable, scrapbook-style format, this volume helps readers answer these and other common questions about dealing with bullying. The accessible text sheds light on the dangers of bullying and how these social issues affect everyone involved. Full-color photographs and fact boxes make this text guide readers through this sensitive examination of a difficult struggle that many young readers face.

A serious yet humorous guide to dealing with bullies.

Explains how, why, when, and where people get bullied as well as who does the bullying and what can be done about it.

With full-color cartoons and humorous, kid-friendly text, Stand Up to Bullying! teaches kids how to safely take a stand against bullying, support kids who are targeted, and spread the word that bullying is not cool -- it's cruel. The power to end bullying starts with one person: you.

Discusses bullying, why it occurs, and how it can be handled.

Describes different ways that bullies hurt others, physically or emotionally, and how to deal with these actions.

Children from all kinds of neighborhoods and schools talk openly about their experiences of being bullied.

What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make sense of it anymore? Well, we have to. As conspiracy theories and online hoaxes increasingly become a part of our national discourse and “truth” itself is being questioned, it has never been more vital to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction, and media literacy has never been more vital.

A research-based exploration of queer behavior in different animal species is interspersed with personal anecdotes and interviews with scientists.